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18th Century English Oak Bible Box With Sea Creatures
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Description:
British c1760 Bible/Document box of early oak with beautiful carvings , possibly a ship box for the Captain. Dated AC 1760, the time traveling to the Caribbean islands for the Mahogany trade, the carved sea creatures may indicate for a ship captain at the time.26.75ʺW × 14.5ʺD × 7.5ʺHThe English crown began to exert greater control over colonial trade in the 1760s, merchants with established contacts in the islands of the Caribbean. Mahogany once grew so abundantlythat woodcutters sawed out only the most ornamental part of the tree, leavingthe rest to decay. By the 1800s countrysidesdominated by fields of sugar cane and dotted with the ragged stumps ofmahogany trees, many over nine feet tall and that this most important raw materialneared extinction on a growing list of West Indian islands.
Category:
Antiques
Posted:
January 13 on Americanlisted
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